Greta and Morgan were the most advanced married couple working in the field of genetical engineering.
The government privileged them with a home laboratory, and intelligent as they were, they deactivated all the spy ware their bosses had installed . Called euphemistically "monitoring". They replaced this feature with a complex series of videos where they would appear to be involved full time in their food research program
Their main accomplishment was the vegetable chicken. A fowl species that grew from planting seeds on a special mix. In three weeks the chicks were running around and clucking. Three more weeks and they were table ready.
They say nothing attracts human so much as the forbidden fruit. The bosses had set a firm boundary.
No one gets to play God. Unsupervised, that is. And they objected in conscience to be part of production of species of warriors and other horrors.And declined taking part in the Neo- Adam research project when invited to join. They claimed to have reached a blockage in human artificial genetics, something about soul transmission that perhaps was a deity's exclusive field or natural selection if you prefer. But to hide their real intentions they agreed to report any new idea or finding they would happen to reach.
Which they knew was a gross inaccuracy as far as all the findings they kept in chryptic secrecy.
Truth is they had cloned their own selves years ago. It was marvelous. Drinking from their own fountain.
They would supplant theirselves with their own duplicates.
To assist a boring congress. To go to tedious meetings. Even for menial daily tasks like going to the bank or taking care of their taxes.
So their life turned into full pleasure mode. Yachting. Painting .Walking the dog. Partying and living the dolce vita.
They moved to a gigantic mansion to house the plus twenty couples of clones they had produced so far. With large farm areas to breed the vegetable chicken to feed everyone. A large underground garage would conceal the comig and going of the clones in glass tinted mini vans.
Each one of their identical copies was totally subordinated to them. They followed every order blindly and work full time just for the food and housing.
This should never come to the government's awareness. They could not put the rest of humanity under risk of missuse of their discoveries. Nor the imminent risk of genocide

I have solved the dilemma of deciding who gets off the lifeboat when all inside love one another, but not doing so would drown everyone.
Take turns and drag all who remain in the water.
Perhaps this might be applied to other sort of emergencies.